Rail-joint.



Y RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24. 1916.

1,217,622. A Patntea Feb. 27, 1917.

, Bmg@ j 'e l FRANZ NEUDORF, or HORNDEAN, MANITOBA,` CANADA.

l RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

j Patented Feuer, 1917.

Application filed January 24, 1916. Serial N o. 73,993.

ments in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rail joints and the objects of the invention are to dispense with the use of bolts, to facilitate invholding the rails in alinement, to effectively guard the joint so obviating liability to accident should the rails become slightly displaced, to permit of the rails being easily connected and disconnected, and generally to adapt the several parts to better perform the functions required of them, and it consists essentially of the improved construction particularly described and set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing forming part of the same.

VIn the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved joint operatively connecting a pair of rails.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved joint as seen when disconnected.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

Fig.4 is a transverse section of the imy proved joint.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawing, A represents a rail of any usual type and B the improved joint designed to operatively connect adjacent rails together. The joint B comprisesy a pair of chairs 10 of substantially angle section each formed with an inverted T- shaped recess 11 in its vertical member and provided in the horizontal member with a plurality of orifices 12 through which spikes or the like may be driven to secure the chair to a rail tie.

These chairs are designed to be spaced apart with the inverted T-shaped recesses 11 in alinement so that when the lower flange and web of the rails A are located between the jaws formed by the said re-rv cesses the adjacent ends of the rails abut and-are located equidistantly fromthe said chairs.

The lower member further carries lugs 13 arranged in pairs directly opposite each other and designedl to frictionally engage the lower flange of the lrails A thereby facilitating in positioning the same.

The rails A are frictionally retained in position by the angle shaped 'cover straps 14 and 15 snugly engaging the flange and web thereof and the edge of the recess 11, the last said strap carrying on its upper edgean offset curvilinear flange 16 located adjacent to but spaced from the lateral face of the rails and bridging the joint vthereof so forming a guard adapted to embrace the flange of. a car wheel and prevent the same' becoming derailed, even when the rails are slightly displaced.

When the chairs are spaced apart, it is essential that creeping of the cover straps 14 and 15 should be eliminatedA and to this end I provide 'the lower flange of each strap with a projection 17 located between the chairs 10 and adapted to engage the verticalfaces thereof.

In assembling the joint B the rails A are engagedl withthe inverted T-shaped recesses 11 of adjacent chairs whereupon the cover strapsil and 15 arepositioned so that the lower flange is embraced by the lug 13 whereupon the rails are moved in a longitudinal direction, so thatV each cover strap 111 and 15 engages with the rail and the T-shaped recess in the opposite chair and is embraced by the lug 13. The chairs are now lsecured in position on the tie by driving spikes through the orifices 12.

It will be seen that in a rail joint of this description the rails cannot, under ordinary working circumstances, by any chance become displaced and creeping of the cover straps 14e and 15 isentirely obviated since the projection 17 of the lower flange engages with the vertical member of the chair 10,' so securely locking the same in position.

As many changes could beA made inthe above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of my lnven- Y,

tion, within the scope of the claim, con` structed without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying speci cation andl dr wing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

lVhat I claim as my invention is:

In a rail joint ofthe class describedV a pair of chairs ofsubstantially angle section each provided with an inverted T- shapedv recess in the vertical member thereof adapted to engage the web and lower flange of a Copies of this patent may be obtained for rail, lugs on the horizontal member of each chair adapted to embrace the lower 'flange of the raih and cover straps located in the T- shaped recess and engaging With the said lugs. y

In Witness whereof I havehereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANZ "NEUDORF, Witnesses:

P. H. GIESBRECHT, ARNOLD W. BOWEN.

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Washington, D.' C. 

